 | Sir Richard Phillips - Electricity - 1807 - 212 pages
...bottom sustains a pressure equal to what it would be if the vessel were as wide at the top as bottom. given part of the bottom or sides of a vessel, is...to the perpendicular height of the fluid above it. Cor. Hence may be •calculated the pressure upon, and the strength required for dams, cisterns, pipes,&c.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...sustains a pressure equal to what it would be if the vessel were as wide at the top as at the bottom. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the...to the perpendicular height of the fluid above it. Hence may be calculated the pressure upon1, and the strength required for dams, cisterns, pipes, &c.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...sustains a pressure equal to what it would lie if the vessel were as wide at the top as at the bottom. , The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the...to the perpendicular height of the fluid above it. Hence may be calculated the pressure upon, and the strength required for dams, cisterns, pipes, &c.... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1824 - 394 pages
...would receive no more pressure than just the pressure of the 'column which arises from it. So that " the pressure of a fluid, upon any given part of the...altitude equal to the perpendicular height of the fluid." When one fluid is specifically lighter than another, the lighter fluid will float upon the surface... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 254 pages
...sustains a pressure equal to what it would be if the vessel was as wide at the top as the bottom. 94. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the...altitude equal to the perpendicular height of the fluid. 04s. 1. Hence may be calculated the pressure upon, and the strength required for dams, cisterns, pipes,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Physics - 1826 - 236 pages
...sustains a pressure equal to what it would be if the vessel was as wide at the top as the bottom. 94. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the...equal to the weight of a column of that fluid, having abase equal to that part of the bottom or side, and an altitude equal to the perpendicular height of... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...which is the bottom of the vessel, and the perpendicular height equal to the depth of the fluid. XCV. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the bottom or sides of a vessel, Elements of Mechanics. is equal to the weight of a column of that fluid, having a base equal to that... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...hydrodynamics which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibrium of fluids, particularly of water. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the bottom or sides of a vessel in equal to the weight of a column of that fluid, having a base equal to that part of the bottom or... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...hydrodynamics which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibrium of fluids, particularly of water. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the...to the perpendicular height of the fluid above it. Hence may be calculated the pressure upon, and the strength required for dams, cisterns, pipes, &c.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...hydrodynamics which treats of the weight, motion, and equilibrium of fluids, particularly of water. The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the...having a base equal to that part of the bottom or side, nnd an altitude equal to the perpendicular height of the fluid above it. Hence may he calculated the... | |
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The pressure of a fluid upon any given part of the bottom or sides of a vessel is equal to the weight of a column of that fluid, having a base equal to that part of the bottom or side, and an altitude equal to the perpendicular height of the fluid above... 
